For the 10th stage of the Season 8, the European Poker Tour has chosen the Spanish capital to gather European poker enthusiasts and also foreigners from March 12 to 17. On Monday, March 12, 125 players came at the  5,300 buy-in Main Event of the EPT Madrid which takes place at the Gran Casino Madrid. The event attracted many renowned top players on the circuit like Eoghean O 'Dea, Alex Kravchenko, Chris Moorman, Martin Staszko, Adeniya Martins, Arnaud Mattern, James Akenhead, Pierre Neuville and also James Dempsey but after this first day of qualification, only 67 players survived to the Day 2. And it is the Ukrainian Sergey Baranov who finished the day as chip leader with a stack of 152,500 chips after eight levels of one hour.